CVE-2015-2296

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-384: Session Fixation

The resolve_redirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.

CWE-384: Session Fixation

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-03-18 16:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-07-15 15:23:00

Affected Software

Python-Requests Requests 2.1.0

2.1.0

Python-Requests Requests 2.2.1

2.2.1

Python-Requests Requests 2.3.0

2.3.0

Python-Requests Requests 2.4.0

2.4.0

Python-Requests Requests 2.4.1

2.4.1

Python-Requests Requests 2.4.2

2.4.2

Python-Requests Requests 2.4.3

2.4.3

Python-Requests Requests 2.5.0

2.5.0

Python-Requests Requests 2.5.1

2.5.1

Python-Requests Requests 2.5.2

2.5.2

Python-Requests Requests 2.5.3

2.5.3

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10

14.10

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0120.html

FEDORA-2015-4084

MDVSA-2015:133

[oss-security] 20150314 CVE Request for python-requests session fixation vulnerability

[oss-security] 20150314 Re: CVE Request for python-requests session fixation vulnerability

USN-2531-1

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/3bd8afbff29e50b38f889b2f688785a669b9aafc

https://warehouse.python.org/project/requests/2.6.0/

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